Listening to grass hoppers: field notes on democarcy (Record no. 83693)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780670083794
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 320.954 ROY
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name "Roy, Arundhati"
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Title Listening to grass hoppers: field notes on democarcy
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New Delhi
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Hamish Hamilton
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2009
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 252p.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount 499.00
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Unit of pricing RS
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Combining brilliant political insight and razor sharp prose. Listening to Grasshoppers is the essential new book from Arundhati Roy. In these essays, she takes a hard look at the underbelly of the world's largest democracy, and shows how the journey that Hindu nationalism and neo liberal economic reforms began together in the early 1990s is unravelling in dangerous ways,<br/><br/>Beginning with the state-backed killing of Muslims in Gujarat in 2002, she writes about how 'progress' and genocide have historically gone hand in hand; about the murky investigations into the 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament: about the dangers of an increasingly powerful and entirely unaccountable judiciary; and about the collusion between large corporations, the government and the mainstream media.<br/><br/>The collection ends with an account of the August 2008 uprising in Kashmir and an analysis of the November 2008 attacks on Mumbai. 'The Briefing', included as an appendix, is a fictional text that brings together many of the issues central to the collection.<br/><br/>As it tracks the fault lines that threaten to destroy India's precarious future, Listening to Grasshoppers asks fundamental questions about democracy itself, a political system that has, by virtue of being considered 'the best available option', been put beyond doubt and correction.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Political situation-India
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Koha item type Books
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  Not Missing Not Damaged   Gandhi Smriti Library Gandhi Smriti Library   2020-02-04 499.00   320.954 ROY 99705 2020-02-04 499.00 2020-02-04 Books

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